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§ 5–119.01. Property Clerk office created; definitions - (a) There shall be an office of the Metropolitan Police...
§ 5–119.02. Lost, stolen or abandoned property — Custody - All property, or money alleged or supposed to have been...
§ 5–119.03. Registration record - All such property and money shall be particularly registered by...
§ 5–119.04. Powers of notaries public - The Property Clerk is vested with all the powers conferred...
§ 5–119.05. Administration of oaths; certification of depositions - The Property Clerk may administer oaths and certify depositions which...
§ 5–119.06. Property clerk — Return of property — General requirements; multiple claimants; immunity; property needed as evidence; notice to owner; disposition upon failure to claim - (a) Upon satisfactory evidence of the ownership of property or...
§ 5–119.07. Acquittal of accused - Whenever property or money shall be taken from persons arrested,...
§ 5–119.08. Ownership claim by other than person arrested - If any claim to the ownership of such property or...
§ 5–119.09. Property transmitted; deceased and incompetent persons; storage; fees; sale - (a) All property or money taken on suspicion of having...
§ 5–119.10. Sale at public auction; motor vehicle with lien of record; disposition of proceeds from sale - (a) With respect to all property (including money), except perishable...
§ 5–119.11. Immunity from damages to property; exception; “gross negligence” defined - Neither the government of the District of Columbia nor any...
§ 5–119.12. Sale of unclaimed animals - Horses and other animals taken by the police and remaining...
§ 5–119.13. Sale of perishable property - All perishable property so taken and unclaimed shall be sold...
§ 5–119.14. Property delivered to owner preceding trial — Generally - When animals or articles of property (except perishable property) other...
§ 5–119.15. Property delivered to owner preceding trial — Perishable property - Perishable property, returned to the Property Clerk as the proceeds...
§ 5–119.16. Property delivered to owner preceding trial — Large quantities of goods held for sale - When large quantities of goods held for sale by the...
§ 5–119.17. Use of property as evidence - If any property or money placed in the custody of...
§ 5–119.18. Property treated as abandoned - Any property or money returned to the Property Clerk as...
§ 5–119.19. Abandoned intangible personal property - Nothing in §§ 5-119.01 through 5-119.10 and 5-119.12 through 5-119.18...